Paromius exiguus (Distant, 1904)

Chandra, Kailash, Saha, P. C., Biswas, B., Hassan, M. E., Praveen, K., Kushwaha, Sandeep & Mukherjee, Paramita, 2020, An account of Heteropteran Bugs collected by Light Trap in and around Dum Dum (Kolkata), West Bengal, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (1), pp. 65-83 : 73

19. Paromius exiguus (Distant, 1904)

1883. Pamera exigua Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. : 434.

1904. Paromius exiguous Distant, Fauna. Brit. India. Rhynchota., 2: 51.

1988. Paromius exiguous : Mukhopadhyay, Rec. Zool. Surv. India. Occ. Paper No - 107:63.

2016. Paromius exiguous : Saha et al.; Rec.zool.surv. India, 116 (2): 163.

Material examined: 1ex, Raja Bagan, Dum Dum, Dist.

Kolkata, 5.v.2014, Coll. P. C. Saha.

Diagnostic characters: Head, anterior lobe of pronotum black, posterior lobe of pronotum, scutellum and legs dark brown in colour, body beneath uniformly black with red; membrane pale brown, with the greyish veins; apex of rostrum black with red.

Length: 7 m. m.

Distribution: India: West Bengal (Dist. Kolkata);

Chhattisgarh. Elsewhere: Japan, Sri Lanka.